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2016-08-17 -Land of the Free

Sweden may have the answer to America’s gun problem

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Posted by badanov 2016-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 This assclown definitely has a smug problem.

Posted by Raj 2016-08-17 00:29|| 2016-08-17 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey Green commenter, it's a God given right. You are more ignorant than the author of this pathetic article.
Your mods have deleted me before...

Posted by jvalentour 2016-08-17 00:38|| 2016-08-17 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 jvalentor - calm down and read the fifth green comment, will ya?

Posted by Raj 2016-08-17 00:41|| 2016-08-17 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Raj, I spell God like this. God.
If you've read my comments before you should know I don't need you to tell me to calm

Posted by jvalentour 2016-08-17 00:58|| 2016-08-17 00:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I am simply pointing out that badanov acknowledged your point and used some poetic license. No need to get bent out of shape over it.

Posted by Raj 2016-08-17 01:04|| 2016-08-17 01:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow Raj, I'm bent because I spell God like this, God.
Not sure about your thoughts here.
Generally you have some insightful things to say......

Posted by jvalentour 2016-08-17 01:12|| 2016-08-17 01:12|| Front Page Top

#7 One more time - while I fully understand where you're coming from, I don't think you need to jump down a mod's throat because he didn't spell God in the precise manner you prefer. I'd rather save my energy for things I find more useful, like abusing Amnesty International pollsters in Copley Square and discarding my cigarette butts (still lit, natch) in their backpacks (which was done to two different pollsters on the same encounter - quite a feat if I do say so myself).

Posted by Raj 2016-08-17 01:26|| 2016-08-17 01:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Sweden, vox.com, Sociologist - I got that far.

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-08-17 01:51|| 2016-08-17 01:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey Green commenter, it's a God given right. You are more ignorant than the author of this pathetic article.
Your mods have deleted me before...

Some religions choose not to spell out the word Gawd because they believe to do so is a show of disrespect to Gawd. That is why I spell out Gawd in that manner, the same way yet another ignorant writer, Rudyard Kipling, did it.

Sincerely, the Green Commenter

Posted by badanov 2016-08-17 05:57|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-08-17 05:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Twenty years ago, I headed to Sweden for a sabbatical year to study the country’s attitudes toward hunting.

Its not and never has been about hunting. It's about protection against a tyrannical government. They just had thrown out a King and his 'regulars'. They were once Englishmen themselves and remember the warning of Cromwell, let alone their readings of the classics of Roman history.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-17 06:57|| 2016-08-17 06:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Yup, P2K.

I hunt and target shoot. I would defend myself with a gun should the need arise.

But the primary reason for citizens to own guns is to take out uppity public sector types when they become dangerous to private citizens, should no other peaceful means of doing so exist.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-08-17 07:36|| 2016-08-17 07:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks P2k. That is and always has been the main point.

Posted by AlanC 2016-08-17 07:43|| 2016-08-17 07:43|| Front Page Top

#13 We don't have a gun problem, we have a crime problem, a left-wing gun-grabber problem, and a problem with left-wingers not wanting to uphold the Constitution.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-08-17 08:20|| 2016-08-17 08:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Some religions choose not to spell out the word Gawd because they believe to do so is a show of disrespect to Gawd.

There's also 'G-d'.

Posted by Pappy 2016-08-17 08:30|| 2016-08-17 08:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Some religions choose not to spell out the word Gawd because they believe to do so is a show of disrespect to Gawd. That is why I spell out Gawd in that manner, the same way yet another ignorant writer, Rudyard Kipling, did it.

Sincerely, the Green Commenter

Ahh yes, Kipling. Many would call him an atheist. Explains everything.

This is not a Christian website, jvalentour. We have no test of faith. Some of us are various flavours of Christian, some are Jewish, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist, even Muslim, just as some of us have melanin levels considerably higher than "white". Get over it or take yourself elsewhere.

Most sincerely,
trailing wife at 10:15 ET

Posted by jvalentour 2016-08-17 08:35|| 2016-08-17 08:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Tell this officious pansy that hunting hasn't a god damn thing to do with our second amendment rights. "Arms" is a very different concept from "Guns".

Posted by KBK 2016-08-17 09:40|| 2016-08-17 09:40|| Front Page Top

#17 While it is true that Sweden has a much lower murder rate than America, they have more police per 100,000 population, and more rapes as well, according to the NationMaster country statistics site:

Police officers per 100,000 population
Sweden 280.5 Ranked 24th. 15% more than United States
United States 243.6 Ranked 27th.

Reported rapes rate per 100,000 population
Sweden 63.5 Ranked 3rd. 2 times more than United States
United States 27.3 Ranked 9th.

Perhaps Sweden would have fewer rapes if they understood the use of guns for personal defense as well as for hunting.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-17 10:47|| 2016-08-17 10:47|| Front Page Top

#18 There's also 'G-d'.
Posted by Pappy

There's also 'Onse Vader'.... (our father) and a host of others.

"Kipling ignorant".... ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-17 10:52|| 2016-08-17 10:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Muh dawg, she is laughing.

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-17 11:25|| 2016-08-17 11:25|| Front Page Top

#20 If Sweden has the answer, it's probably a dumb question.

Posted by charger 2016-08-17 12:10|| 2016-08-17 12:10|| Front Page Top

#21 If a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - Madison has an answer, it's certainly a dumb question.

Posted by Bobby 2016-08-17 12:57|| 2016-08-17 12:57|| Front Page Top

#22 His little camping group sure had a number of careless discharges.

Not very safe with firearms, either.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-17 15:26|| 2016-08-17 15:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Yeah, all those guns went off in the passive voice.

Posted by KBK 2016-08-17 15:53|| 2016-08-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#24 There is only one Vader. And he'll choke your ass out for being stupid. :p

Posted by DarthVader 2016-08-17 18:42|| 2016-08-17 18:42|| Front Page Top

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